Stove-lid



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WITN ESSES las. KOLL.

STOVB LID.

Patented-Jan. 3,1882.

INIVENTOR ATTOR N EYS N. PETERS. Phalomxhugrzphar. washing. D.&;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. KOLL, OE SALEM, OHIO.

STOVE-LID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,899, dated January 3, 1882.4

Application filed J une 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. KoLL, of Salem, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove Lids for Cooking- Stoves and the like; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,.clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which- Figure lis a cross-section of my improved stove-lid; and Fig. 2 is a plan view, the center plate being removed.

This invention has relation to stove-lids; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

The objects ofthe invention are to provide for the expansion and contraction of the lid and to permit the center plate to be heated uni" formly with the rest of thelid; also, to provide cumstances.

Referring by letter to the accom pan yi n g d rawings, A designates the rim of the stove-lid, having the arm B cast therewith and extending to the center of the opening 0 of the rim, where it is perforated to receiw ascrew-bolt, D. This arm B begins slightly back ofthe inner edge,`

E, ot' the rim A, and is concave in its upper Vface for a short distance to form the lower part of the lifter-socket F. Its edges are scalloped or cut away at G from near the perforation H, at the inner end ofthe arm B, for a'short distance to leave a ventilatingspace in said socket when the center plate, I, is in place. The center plate, I, is perforated centrally for the reception of the securing-bolt D, and when the bolt has been passed through the perforation in the plate I and the perforation in the arm B it is secured in place by a nut, K. The central perforation in the center plate is countersunk to receive the head of the bolt, and the edge of said center plate is sufciently far from the edge of the rim to permit the expansion and contraction ot' both without danger of cracking them. The center plate, l, where it comes over the arm B,forins the upper portion of the liftersocket-,`an d causes to be formed the Ventilatingspace G.

The utility of theinvenlion is obvious, as all parts of the lid may be uniformly heated and cooled, and the socket, having the ventilatingspaces, prevents odors and steam from arising from anything that may have been dropped or spilled into the socket by drawing the `same into the combustion-chamber.

I am aware that a two-part stove-,lid is not new, and that provision has been made for contraction and expansion in the same to prevent breaking or bulging, and I do not broadly claim the same. A

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. 1n a two-part stove-lid, the combination, with the rim A, provided with lthe arm B, ofthe center plate, I, perforated centrally and secured to the arm B by a bolt and nut, substantially as specified.

2. In a two-partstove-lid, the combination, with the rim A, having the arm B, concave for a portion of its length, cut away at its edges, and perforated near its inner end, of' the center plate, I, secured to the arin B by bolt and nut to form the ventilated lifterfsocket, substantially as specified.

BENJAMIN S. KOLL.

Witnesses:

EMMEE W. DOLE, PETER AMBLER. 

